<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 19, 2011, at 3:00 AM, Jukka Tuominen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><span class="187511906-19082011"><font size="2" face="Arial">I think what is
rather exceptional in student language mode thinking, is that you are trying/
being able to create a kind of<br>laboratory environment where each
learning step can be controlled. Hard to say whether it is a good idea or not
per se, but the problems seem to raise when you try to step off the lane. It is
a unique situation to be able to do that. </font></span></div>
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<div><span class="187511906-19082011"><font size="2" face="Arial">If new features are
introduced as you move further (gaining new skills in games :) but never go
back, then it should be mostly OK, except that it may make the of-the-lane
learning more challanging. I could think of two situations like
that</font></span></div>
<div><span class="187511906-19082011"><font size="2" face="Arial"> - Wanting to
create a new lane of learning for a special purpose or experimenting
whether some other order might be more optimal</font></span></div>
<div><span class="187511906-19082011"><font size="2" face="Arial"> - Learning
through colleages outside the lane ("ok, you don't have that feature available,
yet... What I usually do in these situations...")</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes, that's one of the more reasonable criticisms that has been leveled at the PBD project: the software supports one specific sequence of topics, and if an instructor wants to introduce things in a different order (e.g. mutation & I/O early), the software ALLOWS that but doesn't really help. Even some people on this list have been known to start their courses in Advanced Student or #lang racket because there was some feature they wanted to introduce early.</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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